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Pac Man's character is difficult to explain even to the Japanese -- he is an innocent character. He hasn't been educated to discern between good and evil. He acts more like a small child than a grown-up person. Think of him as a child learning in the course of his daily activities. If someone tells him guns are evil, he would be the type to rush out and eat guns. But he would most probably eat any gun, even the pistols of policemen who need them.

Pac Man's character is difficult to explain even to the Japanese -- he is an innocent character. He hasn't been educated to discern between good and evil. He acts more like a small child than a grown-up person. Think of him as a child learning in the course of his daily activities. If someone tells him guns are evil, he would be the type to rush out and eat guns. But he would most probably eat any gun, even the pistols of policemen who need them.

Pac Man's character is difficult to explain even to the Japanese -- he is an innocent character. He hasn't been educated to discern between good and evil. He acts more like a small child than a grown-up person. Think of him as a child learning in the course of his daily activities. If someone tells him guns are evil, he would be the type to rush out and eat guns. But he would most probably eat any gun, even the pistols of policemen who need them.

I was catching up on a couple of pages and noticed you dudes talking about Landfall. What is that, because I don't remember ever hearing or reading about it ever? If it's Dragonborn stuff, put it in spoilers and say so please.

the real basic version is that the world is held up/together by the towers

e.g. the white-gold tower in the imperial capitol, the adamantine tower in high rock, red mountain in morrowind, the throat of the world in skyrim

there are more, I don't know how many there are but I'm guessing there's at least one for every province in tamriel

when all of the towers are destroyed or deactivated the world will either end or get real shitty

landfall

this is what the thalmor are working towards, their ultimate goal is to undo reality because they just really can not deal with being mortal

red mountain and I think the white-gold tower are down, and presumably they've taken care of whatever towers are in elfland

I'm given to understand the thalmor are working to destabilize skyrim so they can deactivate the throat of the world

that's something that I think you have to put together for yourself though

in fact I don't know if landfall's ever mentioned outside of the in-game books (I only know about it because of this thread) but the gradual failure of the towers seems to be a running theme in the elder scroll series so presumably at some point that will come to a head

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the real basic version is that the world is held up/together by the towers

e.g. the white-gold tower in the imperial capitol, the adamantine tower in high rock, red mountain in morrowind, the throat of the world in skyrim

there are more, I don't know how many there are but I'm guessing there's at least one for every province in tamriel

when all of the towers are destroyed or deactivated the world will either end or get real shitty

landfall

this is what the thalmor are working towards, their ultimate goal is to undo reality because they just really can not deal with being mortal

red mountain and I think the white-gold tower are down, and presumably they've taken care of whatever towers are in elfland

I'm given to understand the thalmor are working to destabilize skyrim so they can deactivate the throat of the world

that's something that I think you have to put together for yourself though

in fact I don't know if landfall's ever mentioned outside of the in-game books (I only know about it because of this thread) but the gradual failure of the towers seems to be a running theme in the elder scroll series so presumably at some point that will come to a head

Ooooh, that, okay. I've read about it here before and a bit in-game, I think it would make for a pretty cool ES game if that was a thing you were actively trying to stop.

has anybody ever tried destruction magic/two-handed? does that end up being kind of annoying?

i kind of want to make a scary fire mage but i also want to use the

bloodskal blade

Here is my bizarre problem with Skyrim: I get annoyed when my gear disappears into the ether when I equip something else. Like, it shouldn't bother me. It happens all the time in games. But it does. So my current character uses only daggers and spells, since she can easily hide daggers on her person.

So, I find destruction/2H to be really annoying, because my massive beat-stick just keeps disappearing.

I think the prisoner intro works just fine because it means literally nothing but allows you to start with a blank slate and work up from there. Creating an established character with a backstory doesn't really work for the kind of games the Elder Scrolls series predominantly are.

I mean, there are plenty of ways to work around introducing a character with no backstory, but being a prisoner has worked so far and is only a thing you even need to consider for all of 5 minutes.

I wish games didn't start with a tutorial and just threw you into the game. Make the tutorial a separate part of the game accessible from the main menu and stop forcing me to sit through it every time I start a new game.

Yes, I know the ES games have modded out the beginning parts but not all games allow modding or have modding communities.